Ruben Amorim stands ground on Marcus Rashford transfer with 'embarrassing' response

The Manchester United brag started Kobbie Mainoo up beforehand successful Sunday's decision to Crystal Palace, with Rasmus Hojlund and Joshua Zirkzee some benched and Marcus Rashford being allowed to articulation Aston Villa pursuing his exile

Ruben Amorim says helium has nary regrets astatine letting Marcus Rashford permission Manchester United – with the striker joining Aston Villa connected indebtedness today.

United slumped to a 5th location decision successful their past six location Premier League games, their chronic deficiency of goals underlined erstwhile again by their nonaccomplishment to score. Only 4 Premier League teams person scored less goals than United this play but Amorim said it volition not beryllium “embarrassing” if Rashford goes to Villa and starts scoring freely again.

“It's not embarrassing,” said Amorim.” When you indebtedness a subordinate - and I don't deliberation it's authoritative yet - you expect him to play and improve, truthful there's thing humiliating there. I recognize the question, but I'm conscionable focused connected my players, that’s all. When the model closes, I volition beryllium truly focused connected conscionable our squad and trying to amended our team.

“We person to amended arsenic a squad to people goals and we are trying our champion to amended the team.

"This marketplace is truly hard connected the clubs to marque immoderate deals here. It’s hard. Then you person the urgency and sometimes, erstwhile you are successful the moment, you marque mistakes.

“We're trying everything and we privation truthful severely to improve, I privation truthful severely to amended the team. I cognize what the squad needs. Sometimes it’s imaginable oregon not, but we're trying everything.”

Villa volition wage a minimum of 75 percent of Rashford's £325,000-a-week wages, which could emergence to 90 per cent, depending connected performance-related bonuses. They volition besides person an enactment to bargain him astatine the extremity of the season.

United person been linked with a deadline time indebtedness determination for Bayern Munich's young guardant Mathys Tel, but Amorim would lone say: “When the model closes, we volition spot the players, I’m focused connected improving the squad arsenic a group.

“We request to triumph much games and we volition effort to bash that, this play is similar that. We request tiny improvements, effort to triumph points, triumph the momentum, past we had setbacks and we spell again. But it’s wide we request to improve.”

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